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6 comments:

(i) The Federal Government’s MyHR is still being rolled out in the two opt-out pilots hence it has yet to pass acceptance testing.

(ii) Victoria’s proposed Real Time Prescription Monitoring system has yet to be scoped and the API’s with clinical prescribing and pharmacy dispensing systems have yet to be defined.

(iii) Medication Management, as we know it today, is embedded in various hospital and Aged Care software packages and is far from being seamlessly linked and integrated with RTPM and MyHR.

Consequently it is confusing and dare I suggest misleading to bundle these three elements (RTPM, MyHR and Medication Management) up together as part and parcel of the same survey question. Given that each is still in the very early stages of product and market development one cannot reasonably draw any conclusions as posited in this survey question.

Mmmm … David says the question asks is the MyHR fit for use in medication management. He says - It isn't. He says - It is as simple as that and as a non-user friendly secondary system will never be in my view.

IMHO the question does not ask: Is the MyHR fit for medication management.

Rather it asked if the VIC Govt lacks confidence in the MyHR because it is developing its own Real Time Monitoring System.

I have to agree with Ian. He simply pointed out that you cannot link one with t’other in the same breath at this stage of their development and he suggested that you take care not to do so because at this time as they are all immature and not proven.

I don't think Victoria intends to integrate its prescription monitoring system with clinical desktop systems. As in Tasmania it looks as though it will be an independent database which doctors will have to access through a separate signing in procedure in order to see if the patient has been getting S8 drugs from other doctors.